Category: NMCC + UO Events

DSC Summer Arduino Workshop

Introduction to Physical Computing: for academics, utility, or fun featuring the Arduino Uno.

WHEN: July 17th, 2015, 1 – 4 PM

Signup: http://goo.gl/forms/7vDJ5wDnCr

 

The Arduino Uno workshop will introduce participants to hardware prototyping. This is a ‘beta’ event with hands-on experimentation and instruction. Beginners are encouraged to attend!!

 The kits are a resource of the Digital Scholarship Center at University of Oregon Knight Library.

Key Questions to be Addressed:

  • What is physical computing?
  • How can you get started?
  • Learn how to use the Arduino and write your own code!

For more information contact Scott Austed: austed@uoregon.edu

http://digitalscholarship.uoregon.edu

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7 New Media Opportunities to Take Advantage of this Summer!

Looking for interesting opportunities to continue to practice and develop your new media and programming skills over the summer? Check out the links below for ideas!

 

1. Coursera Free Online Course: Programming for Everybody (Python)

WHEN: June 1-August 9
WORKLOAD: 10 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week

ABOUT THE COURSE:

This course is specifically designed to be a first programming course using the popular Python programming language. The pace of the course is designed to lead to mastery of each of the topics in the class. We will use simple data analysis as the programming exercises through the course. Understanding how to process data is valuable for everyone regardless of your career. This course might kindle an interest in more advanced programming courses or courses in web design and development or just provide skills when you are faced with a bunch of data that you need to analyze. You can do the programming assignments for the class using a web browser or using your personal computer. All required software for the course is free.

Read the full posting about the course: 

https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn

kahn academ2. Kahn Academy: Kahn Academy is a fantastic resource that provides a wide variety of free online lessons on the basics of programming.

 

Current lessons on programming available on the site include:
Intro to JS: Drawing and Animation
Advanced JS: Games and Visualizations
HTML/CSS: Making Webpages
HTML/JS: Making Webpages Interactive

lynda.com3. Lynda.com: Lynda.com is a subscription-based coding site that provides an extensive array of courses and video tutorials of all skill levels covering technical skills, creative techniques, and business strategies.

For those interested in learning how to code, Lynda’s Developer Tutorials will be of particular interest. These tutorials help you learn to develop and create mobile apps, work with PHP and MySQL databases, get started with the statistical processing language R, and more.

4. UO Department of Computer and Information Science
Summer 2015 Courses: Summer courses in the department of Computer and Information Science are now posted. Check out the department website for more details.

 

Available classes include:
CIS 110 Fluency with Information Technology
CIS 111 Introduction to Web Programming
CIS 115 Multimedia Web Programming
CIS 122 Intro to Programming and Problem Solving
CIS 399 Android Apps
CIS 399 iPhone/iPad Apps
CIS 399 Introduction to System Administration
CIT 281 Advanced Business Systems

5. Codecademy: Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 8 different programming languages including Python, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript,AngularJS, and Ruby, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. It is a fantastic resource to work on building up your programming skills in your own time- and even better, it’s free to use!

logo-oregonu6. UO Digital Scholarship Center Workshops:
The UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center offers workshops on request. John Russell in the DSC is especially interested in offering introductory workshops for learning the basics of the command line, Python, or R.

If you are interested in setting up a workshop, or have questions about learning opportunities at the DSC this Summer, please contact John at johnruss@uoregon.edu

7. WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Media Training: Program: WMC Progressive Women’s Voices is the premier media and leadership training program for women in the country. Participants represent a range of expertise and diversity across race, class, geography, sexual preference, ability, and generation. They receive advanced, comprehensive training and tools to position themselves as media spokespeople in their fields, thereby changing the conversation on issues that fill headlines. Graduates join a supportive network of alumnae who support each other in their media goals.

Upcoming 2015 WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Training Dates:
July 11 – 12 in Washington DC and July 18 – 19 in Washington, DC
More information and the application form are available here.
Deadline to apply  is June 8, 2015.

 

 

Conference: Japanese and Korean Mediascapes: Youth, Popular Culture, and Nation

Japanese and Korean Mediascapes: Youth, Popular Culture, and Nation

Friday and Saturday, May 29-30, 2015
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
The University of Oregon

This two ­day event will explore the globalization of Japanese and Korean popular culture with an eye to major historical movements and media trends. We will investigate how popular music, video games, television dramas, and comics has shaped international relations, soothed historical tensions, and altered commercial landscapes. This is one of the first conferences at the University of Oregon or elsewhere to examine Japanese and Korean popular culture together.

For more information and full schedule of events, see http://caps.uoregon.edu/japanese-korean-mediascapres-youth-popular-culture-nation/

UO Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center Graduate Affiliates to Host 3 Grad Student Workshops

On June 8th and 9th, the UO Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center Graduate Affiliates will host three workshops for graduate students interested in incorporating digital methods into their research. On June 8th, Adam Turner, doctoral candidate in the History department, will help students learn to manage their workflow using Pandoc and Markdown. On June 9th, Matthew Hannah, doctoral candidate in the English department, will introduce students to social network analysis and Laura Strait, doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Communication, will teach students how to research using Twitter.

All workshops are free, but registration is required. To register, please email Patrick Jones at patrickj@uoregon.edu. The full schedule of workshops follows below.

Digital Scholarship Workshops Schedule:

Monday, June 8
Write For Your Future Self: Getting Started with Plain Text
Adam Turner (History)
3:00-4:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

It’s easy to get stuck in the world of Word, fighting with it over footnotes and spending hours fixing formatting. But there’s another way: In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn the basics of writing ​Markdown​ (an easy to read and write plain text format) and using ​Pandoc​ to convert that plain text into beautifully formatted documents in many formats: PDF, DOCX, HTML, LaTex, presentations, and more. Plain text is fast, flexible, system agnostic, and free. C​ ome learn more about plain text and how it can benefit your workflow for all kinds of research and writing projects.

Tuesday, June 9
Social Network Analysis with Palladio
Matthew Hannah (English)
12:00-1:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

Have you ever wanted to create social network visualizations but didn’t know how? In this workshop, Matthew Hannah, a PhD Candidate whose dissertation “Networks of Modernism” applies social network analysis to literature, will cover the basics of ​Palladio​, a free web-based network program. ​You will learn both the key terms of network analysis and begin to apply network analysis​. In addition, you will be provided with a spreadsheet to manipulate but will also learn how to create your own.

laura straitTwitter Research Methods
Laura Strait (Media Studies)
3:00-4:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

In this workshop we will learn basic techniques for ​scraping Twitter​ data using Twitter’s API in combination with a number of other tools, such as T​ warc​, and T​ witteR​. We will then learn to decode/parse this data and output it into a preferred format such as a matrix, map, or wordcloud.

To register, email Patrick Jones (patrick.jones4@gmail.com), providing your name and which workshop(s) you wish to attend.

Ada Issue 08 IRL Peer Review Session


Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Peer review of Issue 8: Gender, Globalization and the Digital

WHEN: 6PM on Thursday May 21
WHERE: DSC (142 Knight Library)

The peer review process is open to all members of the Fembot Collective to read and comment on the submissions. The formatting may still a work-in-progress, so we emphasize substantive feedback about content, argument, and scholarship will be much more helpful to authors at this stage in their writing.

The community review process is open only to registered members of the Fembot Collective, comments will be made public, on the review site, when the issue is finalized.

If you’re not a member of the Fembot Collective, you can find details about joining the collective [here].

 Ada Issue 8: 
“In this issue we seek essays that explore gender and sexuality concerns in digital spaces and cultures, as well as academic fields such as the digital humanities and computational sciences. Possible topics include: what is the shape of the global “gender gap”? Where are digital products produced and consumed and how do these reveal economic, social and structural inequalities? How do global flows of capitalism construct uneven modernities around the world? How do race and ethnicity intersect with the structure of gendered, global digital communities and diasporas? How does the digital provide and police spaces for organizing around trans issues? What are the networks of affect, intimacy and sexuality that grow out of digital cultures?  How are operations of interface, output and input structured by ideas of gender, sexuality and language? How do access and ableism structure issues of gender and sexuality in digital spaces?”
Read more.

 

Upcoming DSC Workshop: “Time-Travel for Academics: Get your digital life in order, and protect yourself from yourself”

Recent NMCC graduate Jacob Levernier will lead a workshop at the Lewis Integrative Science Building on campus this Monday, May 18th as part of the Quantitative Methods Lab (“MethLab” for short).

When: Monday, 5/18 from 12-1pm (It will last an hour with time after for questions).

Event details: If you’ve ever been working on a manuscript, statistical analysis, or notes on your reading, you might have started saving versions of your work with names like “Manuscript_good_3_a”, “Manuscript_after_edits_good”, “Manuscript_Use_This”, and “Manuscript_Use_This_Final”. Not only for your advisor or collaborators, but also for yourself a few months in the future, this approach to managing versions of your work can be confusing at best and misleading at worst, causing you to forget which version is the most up-to-date and, as a result, to re-do or lose work.

“Version control” is a type of free software that you can use to manage your work — not only to remember which versions are from when, but also to see exactly what you changed between versions, and why. Like a time machine, version control software lets you move back and forth between versions without clogging your hard drive with multiple copies of the same files.

We will be discussing the “why” and “how” of using Git, a popular and free version control system that is also the foundation for GitHub, which software developers and academics alike are using to share and collaborate on their work.

This talk will use both the command-line (the Terminal app in Mac OSX and Linux, and Command Prompt or Cygwin (https://www.cygwin.com/) inWindows — no experience assumed) and a point-and-click program called GitEye (http://www.collab.net/downloads/giteye).

 

Cinema Pacific Presents: Global Industries Forum with Eric Lin

Friday, May 1 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Allen Hall, Julie and Rocky Dixon Signature Classroom, Allen Hall 141
1020 University Street, Eugene, OR

Join Cinema Pacific for a conversation about the Chinese film industry with School of Journalism and Communication alum Eric Lin ’97, senior manager of film production at Bona Film Group, the largest privately owned film distributor in China. Moderated by Daniel Steinhart, SOJC assistant professor and NMCC affiliated faculty member.

Light reception to follow.

 

MFA 2015 Thesis Exhibition, Opening May 8


Disjecta: 8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97217
May 8 – May 31, 2015
Opening: Friday, May 8, 2015, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours Friday–Sunday, Noon–5:00 p.m.

The University of Oregon Department of Art 2015 MFA thesis exhibition presents the culminating work of ten master of fine arts graduate students. In writing the exhibition essay to accompany their work, Christie Hajela, graduate student in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture, says, “Collectively, the third-year MFA students invite us to explore the possibilities of the spaces in between their similarities and differences. There are no strict physical boundaries demarcating the end of one artist’s work and the beginning of another’s in this exhibition, and this nebulous “in-between” space ultimately aligns with the thematic intersection of these artists and their otherwise eclectic practices.”

The Department of Art’s interdisciplinary graduate program encourages students to work across disciplines, with focus in areas of sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, digital arts, ceramics, fibers, and jewelry and metalsmithing. The MFA program is a three-year course of study that involves rigorous studio investigation, critical discourse, and conceptual development. Emphasis is placed on developing a curriculum tailored to the needs of the individual student while encouraging exploration and risk-taking

In the catalog, Hajela cites the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and his essay “Différance.” In an excerpt from her essay, she says, “Derrida describes the structure of his discussion of differance through ‘assemblage,’ which reflects the ‘structure of an interlacing, a weaving, or a web, which would allow the different threads and different lines of sense or force to separate again, as well as being ready to bind others together.’ ” Viewers are invited to visit the exhibition, pick up an exhibition catalog that includes the complete essay and images of the work, and learn more about the explorations of the UO’s newest contemporary artists.

For more information, please contact UO Department of Art at 541-346-3610, or director of graduate studies, Christopher Michlig, assistant professor, at cmichlig@uoregon.edu.

Exhibiting Artists:

Farhad Bahram
Fei Chen
Matt Christy
Alex Krajkowski
Anne Magratten
Andrew Oslovar
Brandon Siscoe
Megan St. Clair
John Tolles
Jessie Rose Vala

Student Perspective: SOJC’s New Media and Democracy Conference

laura straitLaura Strait is a PhD student of Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She recently co-organized the New Media and Democracy Conference with Dr. Bish Sen, and fellow PhD student Patrick Jones. The conference investigated the changes in global political discourses and practices brought about by the digital revolution. The event was part of the Wayne Morse Center’s theme of inquiry on Media and Democracy. Below, Laura discusses the goals of the conference as well her own experience in organizing the event.

Co-organizing the conference with Dr. Bish Sen and Patrick Jones, was a fantastic experience in bringing cutting-edge international and interdisciplinary theoretical developments into a focused conversation about the current state of “new media and democracy.” The conference aimed to answer a number of questions: How do new media function as an instrument of democratic politics? What role can new media play in the formation of a public sphere? And, to what extent do digital technologies and practices create the conditions for new forms of participatory politics?

Dr. Sang Jo Jong of Seoul National University began this conversation as the keynote speaker, highlighting issues of internet and access in contemporary South Korea. This was taken up early the following day with a panel on informational institutions and their political implications, and followed by localized international work on various forms of new media and their political implications. All of the presentations were so fantastic, and I look forward to any further communication and/or collaboration between such distinguished scholars.

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Tarek El-Ariss participates in a discussion at the New Media and Democracy Conference
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Guest speakers Camille Crittenden and Leah Lievrouw participate in the New Media and Democracy conference.
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Matthew Adeiza and Joseph Straubhaar at the New Media and Democracy conference.
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Guest speaker Leah Lievrouw leads discussion at the New Media and Democracy conference.
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The guest speakers for the New Media and Democracy Conference (L to R): Tarek El-Ariss, Joseph Straubhaar, Camille Crittenden, Aswin Punathambekar, Purnima Mankekar, Leah Lievrouw, and Matthew Adeiza

 

For more information about the conference and guest speakers, please visit the conference website here.